TUDW EP 44 - The Fly (1986) & Xtro (1982) - a podcast by Huw Lloyd

TUDW Episode 44 – The Fly (1986) & Xtro (1983)

On this episode I’m joined but the incorrigible Mr Peter Nielsen (@Peter_Nielsen) and we are talking The Fly (1986) and Xtro (1982)

The Fly (1986)
When scientist Seth Brundle (Jeff Goldblum) completes his teleportation device, he decides to test its abilities on himself. Unbeknownst to him, a housefly slips in during the process, leading to a merger of man and insect. Initially, Brundle appears to have undergone a successful teleportation, but the fly's cells begin to take over his body. As he becomes increasingly fly-like, Brundle's girlfriend (Geena Davis) is horrified as the person she once loved deteriorates into a monster.
Release date: 13 February 1987 (United Kingdom)
Director: David Cronenberg
Story by: George Langelaan
Film series: The Fly
Box office: 60.6 million USD


Xtro (1982)
Family man Sam Phillips (Philip Sayer) has been missing for three years when he suddenly returns home to his son, Tony (Simon Nash), and wife, Rachel (Bernice Stegers). Though Tony has clung to the hopes of his father's return, his mother has moved on and is involved with another man. Rachel still has a place in her heart for her husband, but the love triangle is rudely interrupted when it becomes apparent that Sam's disappearance was the result of an alien abduction, and he's no longer human.
Initial release: 6 December 1982
Director: Harry Bromley Davenport
Producer: Mark Forstater
Music composed by: Harry Bromley Davenport
Screenplay: Harry Bromley Davenport, Iain Cassie, Robert Smith

And on What the Wookie Watched I review Miss Leslie’s Doll (1973), Assault (1971) and Mom and Dad (2017)

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